Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.