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.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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.
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.