Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
I can resist everything except temptation.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations.
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects.
I adore simple pleasures.They are the last refuge of the complex.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）