To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.