Emotions and Feelings

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I didn’t fire him [General MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

It’s a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The three-o’-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

It’s a funny old world.

No! No! No!

Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!