Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they they forgive them.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
There is no such thing as moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
The old believe everything: the middle - aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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.
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Always! That is the dreadful word...it is a meaningless word, too.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Good artists exist simple in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
A sentimentalist is simple one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Men become old, but they never become good.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - long romance.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old - fashioned quite suddenly.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible,
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they will be.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
There is luxury in self - reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Men know life too early, women know life too late.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I' m old - I know it is.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. nothing ages like happiness.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built -up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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