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.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!