The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.