“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.”

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

“I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins”