The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain. |
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. |
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. |
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster |
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding |
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing |
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. |
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. |
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. |
The secret of life is in art. |
The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. |
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived |
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. |