I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

The world was floods above and fire below

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.