He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.