Quotations

'The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.'

St Athanasius said this and it's still topical.


'If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.'

Nietzsche


'I admit that I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand, no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.'

Lord Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray . Most of my women friends think this, being beautiful themselves.


'The only thing worth having is youth.'


Ibid.


See my recent post about Wilde's behaviour.


'An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.'
Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel, a wonderful book


i have had my ups and downs
but wotthehell wotthehell
yesterday sceptres and crowns
fried oysters and velvet gowns
and today i herd with bums
but wotthehell wotthehell
i wake the world from sleep
as i caper and sing and leap
when i sing my wild free tune
wotthehell wotthehell
under the blear eyed moon
i am pelted with cast off shoon
but wotthehell wotthehell
Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel