Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.