They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

A burnt child loves the fire.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.