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.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.