Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
A girl's best friend is her mutter.
And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?
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