Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.