Emotions and Feelings

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Alcohol is a very necessary article … It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I’m only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Oh, you are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier!

Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

Now let it work; mischief, thou art afoot.

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,