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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting
what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties
Nothing can cure the sould but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My eldar brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be colored by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us.
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no priciples better than anything else in the world.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm. That's all.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say as a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as Engilsh women are at concealing their past.
what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties
Nothing can cure the sould but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My eldar brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be colored by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us.
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no priciples better than anything else in the world.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm. That's all.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say as a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as Engilsh women are at concealing their past.