26 quotes found
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are...”
“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
“Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.”
“Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.”
“I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.”
“A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progress...”
“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”
“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”
“Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations t...”
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the fruits of his ambition, if you take him from the splendour of a great political career, if you close ...”
“He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be s...”
“The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.”
“Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common ...”
