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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be b...   Marriage
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much...  
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom w...  
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.  
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothi...  
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, ...  
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death...  
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have n...   Death
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure...  
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquir...  
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to...  
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soo...  
Have common sense and stick to the point.  
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men...  
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for ...  
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. T...  
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their hear...  
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedo...  
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever....  
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.  
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more ...  
Impropriety is the soul of wit.  
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an appl...  
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in ...  
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but t...  
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have l...  
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does t...  
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's digni...  
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than...  
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 exi...  
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.  
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "...  
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but th...  
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both ...  
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.  
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build...  
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's ...  
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the...   Love
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a ha...  
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nat...  
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete u...  
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions ...  
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it ...  
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake...  
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than ...  
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they wo...  
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.  
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.  
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.  
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies tha...  
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.  
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute...  
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast str...  
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.  
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature t...  
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotis...   Success
The crown of literature is poetry.  
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.  
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has alr...  
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will le...  
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.  
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri...  
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.  
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is s...  
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing a...  
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.  
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.  
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows...  
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one kno...  
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of ...  
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessar...  
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece...  
To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.  
Tolerance is another word for indifference.  
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.  
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. ...   Love
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed aft...  
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.  
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of...  
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been ...  
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties,...  
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and th...  
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right...  
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing perso...  
Writing is the supreme solace.  
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches to...  
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the cons...  
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now ex...  
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you...