You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Fear is choosing the safe course
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
All Artists are Anarchists.
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.
But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
The 100% American is 99% idiot.
We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
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