“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”

“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late”

“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”