It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.