Emotions and Feelings

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death. Remember that even in childbeating there is the sportsman's way and the cad's way.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

All scoundrelism is summed up in the phrase "Que Messieurs les Assassins commencent!"

IF BOOKS ARE NOT GOOD COMPANY, WHERE WILL I FIND IT?

A BOOK IS A MIRROR: IF AN ASS PEERS INTO IT, YOU CAN’T EXPECT AN APOSTLE TO LOOK OUT.

For most of my reading I go back to the old ones – for comfort.

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

REALITY PROVIDES US WITH FACTS SO ROMANTIC THAT IMAGINATION ITSELF COULD ADD NOTHING TO THEM.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

JUST LIVING IS NOT ENOUGH… ONE MUST HAVE SUNSHINE, FREEDOM, AND A LITTLE FLOWER.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

THE FASCINATION OF SHOOTING AS A SPORT DEPENDS ALMOST WHOLLY ON WHETHER YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT OR WRONG END OF THE GUN.

GOLF IS A DAY SPENT IN A ROUND OF STRENUOUS IDLENESS.

I MUST COMPLAIN THE CARDS ARE ILL SHUFFLED, TILL I HAVE A GOOD HAND.