Cynicism Is Intellectual Dandyism.

She [comedy] It Is Who Proposes The Correcting Of Pretentiousness, Of Inflation, Of Dulness, And Of The Vestiges Of Rawness And Grossness To Be Found Among Us. She Is The Ultimate Civilizer, The Polisher, A Sweet Cook.

We Know The Degree Of Refinement In People By The Matter They Laugh At And The Ring Of The Laugh.

The Man Who Has No Mind Of His Own Lends It To The Priests.

And If I Drink Oblivion Of A Day, / So Shorten I The Stature Of My Soul.

Heiresses Are Never Jilted.