All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
All art is quite useless.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Who, being loved, is poor?
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
True friends stab you in the front.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
In married life three is company and two none.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.