Emotions and Feelings

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

What is an obstacle in our loving men is the love they have for themselves, which is touchy, exclusive, inordinate, tragic. We could never love them as much as that.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste- souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

That which probably hears more stupidities than anything else in the world is a painting in a museum.

Though 1 know he loves me, / Tonight my heart is sad; / His kiss was not so wonderful / As all the dreams I had.

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.

Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Fun is like life insurance: The older you get, the more it costs.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

I hold it true, what’re befall feel it, when I sorrow most ‘is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....

Man has his will - but woman has her way.