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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.