When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. Votes: 24
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Votes: 17
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. Votes: 16
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. Votes: 12
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Votes: 10
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. Votes: 0
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. Votes: 0
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. Votes: 0
The crown of literature is poetry. Votes: 0
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. Votes: 0
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. Votes: 0
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. Votes: 0
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. Votes: 0
I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. Votes: 0
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. Votes: 0
Sherry, the civilized drink. Votes: 0
Writing is the supreme solace. Votes: 0
Impropriety is the soul of wit. Votes: 0
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few. Votes: 0
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. Votes: 0
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. Votes: 0
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. Votes: 0
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. Votes: 0
Imagination grows by exercise. Votes: 0
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. Votes: 0
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. Votes: 0
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. Votes: 0
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. Votes: 0
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. Votes: 0
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. Votes: 0
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. Votes: 0
The end of culture is right living Votes: 0
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. Votes: 0
The tragedy of love is indifference. Votes: 0
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. Votes: 0