My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.