Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.