It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
True friends stab you in the front.
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, an...
But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get o...
Most people are boring and stupid.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, p...