The Prisoner of Zenda

Good families are generally worse than any others.

— The Prisoner of Zenda

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.

— The Prisoner of Zenda

It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

— The Prisoner of Zenda