When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.