Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.
Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.
The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.
There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.
Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.
When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.