Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say; For we did not meet in the holy night, But in the shameful day.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

I like no law at all: Were there no law there'd be no law-breakers, So all men would be virtuous.

She trembled all over, and shook like a white narcissus. Then she flung herself on her knees and kissed my hands.

With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.

There is an unknown land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.