She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
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