Quote #15686
Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles.
Quote #18386
Life is too short to be sensible.
Quote #20982
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Quote #4577
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Quote #5690
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most...
Quote #12364
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Quote #14479
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the...
Quote #13044
By the work one knows the workmen.
Quote #11821
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel...
Quote #5954
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted...