No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.