 Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. |
| The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. |
| It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. |
| There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. |
| Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. |
| When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. |
| We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. |
| Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. |
| Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Topics: Age |
| I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. |
| Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
| My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. |
| The crown of literature is poetry. |
| Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. |
| The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. |
| The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. |
| The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. |
| The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. |
| Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. |
| It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. |
