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Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.
