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.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
I work as my father drank.
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.
I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism. I don't and wont trade in affection. You call...
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
All great truths began as blasphemies.
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.