Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.