When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn’t think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn’t expect, just as one should say what she doesn’t understand.
Dammit Sir, it’s your duty to get married. You can’t always be living for pleasure!
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked.
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them...
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Bad manners make a journalist.
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim – objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.