A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself