There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.