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.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
For 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.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Life is a very terrible thing. She governs us, not the other way round.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.