Romance is everything.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
It is very easy to love alone.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
We are always the same age inside.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
History takes time. History makes memory.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.