In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

In married life, three is company and two none.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection.

It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

My own business always bore’s me to death; I prefer other people’s.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age; a woman who would tell one would tell one anything.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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- “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

- “Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”

- “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

- “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

- “Biography lends to death a new terror.”

- “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

- “By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”

- “Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.”

- “Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

- “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

- “Children have a natural antipathy to books – handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.”

- “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

- “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

- “Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

- “Cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

- “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

- “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.”

- “Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”

- “Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”

- “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

- “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

- “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

- “Everyone should keep someone else’s diary.”

- “Everything popular is wrong.”

- “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”

- “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

- “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

- “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

- “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

- “He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

- “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

- “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

- “He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.”

- “He was always late on principle; his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

- “Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.”

- “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

- “How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

- “How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”

- “I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

- “I am not young enough to know everything.”

- “I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.”

- “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

- “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

- “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

- “I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

- “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

- “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

- “I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.”

- “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

- “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”

- “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

- “I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.”

- “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

- “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

- “I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

- “I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

- “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying – dead.”

- “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

- “If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”

- “If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.”

- “If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”

- “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

- “If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.”

- “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

- “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

- “In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

- “In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever.”

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- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

- “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

- “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

- “Every artist was first an amateur.”

- “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

- “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

- “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

- “Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

- “In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

- “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”

- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

- “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

- “Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”

- “Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”

- “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

- “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

- “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

- “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

- “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”

- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

- “Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”

- “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

- “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

- “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”

- “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”

- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

- “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

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- “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

- “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

- “A man can’t be to careful in his choice of enemies.”

- “A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain.”

- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”

- “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

- “A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature.”

- “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

- “A true friend stabs you in the front.”

- “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

- “Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”

- “All art is quite useless.”

- “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

- “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

- “Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

- “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

- “America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

- “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

- “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

- “Anybody can be good in the country; there are no temptations there.”

- “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

- “Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

- “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

- “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

- “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”

- “As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn’t become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.”

- “At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.”

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“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.” – Unknown

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown

“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.” – Unknown

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Saint-Exupery

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” – John Donne

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” – Joseph Conrad

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” – Christopher Marlowe

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- “Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.” – Samuel Alexander

- “Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.” - G.K. Chesterton

- “Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.” – James M. Baldwin

- “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White

- “The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” – Sigmund Freud

- “A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.” – Joey Adams

- “There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.” – C.G. Jung

- “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams

- “Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” – Mason Cooley

- “A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they’re complex.” – S.N. Behrman

- “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.” – Hermann Ebbinghaus

- “A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence

- “The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.” – Mignon McLaughlin

- “The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.” – Paul Valéry

- “Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years.” - Thomas S. Szasz

- “Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.” – Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death

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- "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." – William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter.

- "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

- "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

- "The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion." – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

- "Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods –moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former –but no opinion." – Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher.

- "Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct." – Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility

- "Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent." – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

- "Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know." – Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German philosopher.

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“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” – Tom Blandi

“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Sidney Madwed

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” – Henry David Thoreau

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