You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or... - Oscar Wilde

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"