- "Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life"

- "Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious"

- "Everything is dangerous. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living..."

- "Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune"

- "Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth"

- "When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers"

- "She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman"

- "The truth is a thing I get rid of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club...with the old members"

- "Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing"

- "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf"

- "Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly"

- "The higher education of men is what I should like to see. Men need it so sadly"

- "Modern women understand everything, I'm told. - Except their husbands. That is the one thing the modern woman never understands"

 - "A man on the question of dress is always ridiculous. - Oh, no! I think men are the only authorities on dress"

- "The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times"

- "Nothing ages a woman so rapidly as having married the general rule"

- "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike"