A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame