Quotes to inspire and reflect

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that’s mad.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

‘Tis brief, my lord…as woman’s love.

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you’re in love with her. Then she is worth all she costs you.

And I am Marie of Roumania.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

My wife and I thought we were in love—but it turned out to be benign.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

There’s only one kind of love that lasts—unrequited love. It stays with you forever.

But love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them.

Every love’s the love before in a duller dress.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for 41 years. If my wife ever finds out, she’ll kill me!

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.

Can’t make out how you stand London Society. The thing has gone to the dogs, a lot of damned nobodies talking about nothing.

I don’t know what London’s coming to—the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

[London:] A place you go to get bronchitis.

A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London—nobody can be.

Oh, I love London Society!…It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

When life hands you lemons, make whiskey sours.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.

Ducking for apples—change one letter and it’s the story of my life.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

My only regret in life is that I’m not someone else.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

It’s possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

…life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

[Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

…life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.