Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.