In a Temple everyone should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped.
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In a Temple everyone should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped.
Sentimentality is merely the bank holiday of cynicism.
I quite love scratches. They are the only things to not be serious.
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect I know is the British intellect. And on the British intellect the illiterates play the drum.
Sentiment is all very well for the button-hole. But the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
"They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris.""Really! And where do bad Americans go to when they die?""They go to America."