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A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

There is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

There is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do ...

The mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.