"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
"The world has been made by fools that men should live in it."
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
"To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance."
"Passion makes one think in a circle."
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations."
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
"Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry."
"Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there."