It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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

America is not a country, it is a world.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.