There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
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