Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
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Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
In my young days, one never met anyone in society who worked for their living. It was not considered the thing.
I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.
In a period like ours, inventing absolutely nothing is an act of pure genius. And, in a commercial period like ours, it indicates considerable physical strength.
Examinations are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
The philistine component in life isn't the incompetence in understanding art. Charming people like fishermen, sherperds, plowers, peasants and likewise no nothing of art and they are the real salt of the earth.