The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.