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.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.