There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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

People are either charming or tedious.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.