Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. …”

“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympath…”

“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. …”

“What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man…”