I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
I delight in talking politics. I talk them all day. But I can't bear listening to them. I don't know how the unfortunate men in the house stand these long debates.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Men become old, but they never become good.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Life is a very terrible thing. She governs us, not the other way round.