Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
You should study the Peerage… It is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit… are entirely due to the country having adopted for its national hero a man who was incapable of telling a lie.
Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
In America, life is one long expectoration.
Ah! don’t say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge, she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.
