I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes