I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.