A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
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...
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness alwa...