“Most people are boring and stupid.”

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“I don't know how to talk.Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”