The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been don...
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak...
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
My reputation grows with every failure.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
Morality is not respectability.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.