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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues
We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!