 A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. |
| The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. |
| It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. |
| You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences. |
| It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." |
| If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? |
| Tolerance is another word for indifference. |
| If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. |
| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. |
| Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. |
| Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. |
| The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. |
| It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. |
| Impropriety is the soul of wit. |
| I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. |
| There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. |
| Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. |
| It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. |
| It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. |
| We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. |
