You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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...
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, w...
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enem...
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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...