A burnt child loves the fire.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.