Character: Lord Harry Henry Watton

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us to errors, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Suffering does not cause me sympathy. Too repulsive, too horrible, too depressing.

Conscience and cowardice, in essence, one and the same.

This is just the prologue of the finale.

Good intentions - is simply futile attempts to go against nature

Life has always poppies in her hands.

Fun you can find in everything a habit.

The only way to avoid temptation is to yield to it.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Often a genuine tragedy in my life take a unaesthetic form that offend us by their rude fury, the extreme irrationality and senselessness, the complete lack of finesse. They are abhorrent to us, as all vulgar. We can smell them just brute force, and rise up against it. But it happens that in life, we encounter a drama that has artistic elements of beauty. If these elements of beauty are real, the drama of the event captures us. And we suddenly find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the tragedy. Or, rather, both. We watch ourselves, and the strangeness of this spectacle we know.

Moderation is like an ordinary boring dinner party, and intemperance - a festive feast.

- So you don't like our country?
- I live in it.

You will always treat me with love. In your eyes I am the embodiment of all those sins that you have not had the courage to commit.

The so-called "immoral" books are only the books that show the world his vices, that's all.

But Island is a very serious problem.
- No doubt. It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.