What fire does not destroy, it hardens
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen...
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, i...