Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.