The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Love is easily killed.
Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing wi...
And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with g...
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make m...
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever mor...
True friends stab you in the front.
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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