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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I...more

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LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite g...more

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JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must ...more

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

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It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.