(a country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
True friends stab you in the front.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
