Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.