The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can neve…

The struggle for existence in a universe we did not choose, and the burden of being a member of the only race which values objective, verifiable truth as an en…

I became mentally bifocal, and so I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as peop…