London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves.
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.
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
Your mother is a thoroughly good woman. But
good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so
small, their interests are so petty...
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
The world was created by the stupid for the wise to live in.
I should fancy the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chaps bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.