The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.