Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.[The Canterville Ghost]
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
