| |
|
"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."
"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
"When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers."
"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Argument's are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
"When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That's what the world calls romance."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Life is far too important to be taken seriously."
"Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it."
"The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go."
(One month before he died on the same bed.)
| |
|