There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

History is merely gossip

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.