Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.