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All
great ideas are dangerous.
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The
tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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All
charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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There
is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not
being talked about.
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To
get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get
up early, or be respectable.
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The
difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable
and literature is not read.
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The
strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men
can be analysed, women ... merely adored.
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A
dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is
that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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A
map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at,
for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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There
is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of
the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The
public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth
knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies
their demands.
- Outcasts always mourn.
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Art
never expresses anything but itself.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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The
only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their
mistakes.
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All
women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a
great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Everything
is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the
people by the people for the people.
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All art
is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their
peril.
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Men marry because they are tired; women
because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
