Hatred is blind, as well as love.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.