Quote #18239
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Quote #20576
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise...
Quote #25531
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an...
Quote #12356
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Quote #7570
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the...
Quote #33000
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Quote #11318
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Quote #25063
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
Quote #17429
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping,...
Quote #16438
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor...