I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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