Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.