The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.

All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.

We're all of us pretty much an assemblage of memories.

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.