Every man's memory is his private literature.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
