Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?