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There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.
London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.
