 It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. |
| Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. |
| One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. |
| One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. |
| No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. |
| Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. |
| Charity creates a multitude of sins. |
| Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. |
| The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. |
| If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. |
| Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. |
| Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. |
| Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. |
| It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. |
| The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. |
| Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. |
| Why was I born with such contemporaries? |
| A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. |
| Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. |
| The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. |
