“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.”

“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.”

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.”

“Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. I hate it.”