Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
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.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating...
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were...
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, tha...
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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