 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. |
| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
| It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. |
| Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. |
| A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. |
| A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. |
| Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. |
| Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. |
| It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. |
| If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. |
| Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. |
| If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. |
| The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. |
| You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. |
| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. |
| The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. |
| Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
| The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. |
| The love of economy is the root of all virtue. |
| Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. |
