When he saw me, he made me a low bow and assured me that I was a munificent patron of art.

He was a most offensive brute, though he had an extraordinary passion for Shakespeare.

He told me once, with an air of pride, that his five bankruptcies were entirely due to 'The Bard,' as he insisted on calling him.

He seemed to think it a distinction." "It was a distinction, my dear Dorian--a great distinction.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.