I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
Graves they say are warm’d by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
Atheism is the last word of theism.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.