“An ordinary man away from home giving advice.”
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
“Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.”
“Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.”
“Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.”
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
“Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.”
“What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?”
“Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.”
“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”
“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.”
“It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”
“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.”
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
“Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.”
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”