But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–

I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat's keel.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

I'm a lurid character!

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.