The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene