“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.”

“Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.”

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”