In married life three is company and two none.
Only the shallow know themselves.
It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
An excellent man [George Bernard Shaw]; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.