Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.