We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
Writing is the supreme solace.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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