Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.