In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

In married life three is company and two none.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.