We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
My reputation grows with every failure.
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
The stock actor is a stage calamity
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.