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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.