“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

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

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.""Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.""Nobody ever does.”

“If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.”

“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”

“If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.”