If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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.
I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
To define is to limit.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Wisdom comes with winters
The Noblest form of Affection
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.