Emotions and Feelings

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I WISH PEOPLE WEREN’T SO SET ON BEING THEMSELVES, WHEN THAT MEANS BEING A BASTARD.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.

ALWAYS BORROW MONEY FROM A PESSIMIST. HE WON’T EXPECT IT BACK.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

People who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

TRUE TERROR IS TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING AND DISCOVER THAT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY.

WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON; AND OUR LITTLE LIFE IS ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The wiser mind mourns less for what Age takes away, than what it leaves behind.

A fly, sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

AS A SLEUTH YOU ARE POOR. YOU COULDN’T DETECT A BASS-DRUM IN A TELEPHONE-BOOTH.

NO ONE CAN HAVE A HIGHER OPINION OF HIM THAN I HAVE, AND I THINK HE’S A DIRTY LITTLE BEAST.

You look wise. Pray correct that error.

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF DISLIKING POETRY, ONE WAY IS TO DISLIKE IT, THE OTHER IS TO READ POPE.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

AFTER A GOOD DINNER ONE CAN FORGIVE ANYBODY, EVEN ONE’S OWN RELATIONS.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.