The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and...
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wan...
Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. They are all right from their several points of view; and their points of v...
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make th...
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.