If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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...
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just a...
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the w...
In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
Shall I turn up the light for you?No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I do...
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.