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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. - [Respect] Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. - [Morality] My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. - [Education] My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. - [Words] My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. - [Right] Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. - [Jealousy] Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. - [Newspapers] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. - [Experts] No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. - [Self-respect] No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. - [Questions] Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. - [Reward] Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. - [Accomplishments] Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. - [Music] Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst. - [Business] Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. - [Old Age] Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - [Patriotism] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. - [Patriotism] Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. - [Peace] People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. - [Books] People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. - [Avarice] Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. - [Criticism] Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. - [Avarice] She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. - [Speech] The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - [Government] The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. - [Reform] Displaying page 4 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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