Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

Men have educated us. But not explained you. Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.