Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Punctuality is the thief of time

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.