I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.