Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Patriotism is the vice of nations.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
