In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.