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. - Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere: Windermere and I married for love.

Duchess of Berwick: Yes, we begin like that. It was only Berwick's brutal and incessant threats of suicide that made me accept him at all, and before the year was out, he was running after all kinds of petticoats, every colour, every shape, every material.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.