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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.