A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. |
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. |
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. |
A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever |
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account |
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good |
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers |
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it |
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. |
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. |
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams |
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely |
Beauty is a bit of a bore. |
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. |
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul |