Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

Make him [the reader] laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you’re in love with her. Then she is worth all she costs you.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.