 Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. |
| Most women are not as young as they are painted. |
| We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. |
| It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. |
| Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. |
| Nobody ever died of laughter. |
| A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. |
| To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. |
| You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. |
| Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. |
| One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. |
| To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. |
| I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. |
| Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. |
| No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'. |
| As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. |
| To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. |
| When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. |
| People are either born hosts or born guests. |
| I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. |
