Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broo…”

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an inte…”

“Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at t…”