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Nobody ever died of laughter.
Death cancels all engagements.
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.