Outcasts always mourn.
Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious.
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
No gentleman ever has any money.
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity’s machine.
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Fruitcake is like semen, there’s a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods – Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
The world belongs to the discontented.
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper’s when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
The only real people are the people who never existed.