She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night..

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have..

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter..

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature..

Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar W….

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering..

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did..

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet..

Everything comes to the man who won't wait..

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public..

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be th….

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. ….

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too..

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible..

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure..

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this t….

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men..

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past..

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed..

To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, ….