We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
The world is simply divided into two classes – those who believe the incredible, like the public – and those who do the improbable.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating…
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
