We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
