My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

The secret of life is in art.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.