Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.