I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.