“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for us, ought to have one overriding goal, which is to hold fast to those things, in order to pass them on to our children.”
― How to Be a Conservative
― How to Be a Conservative
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― The Nameless City
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― The Nameless City
“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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