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| Women are made to be loved, not understood. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ambition is the last refuge of failure. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. | [▲] | [▼] |
| When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Only the shallow know themselves. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. | [▲] | [▼] |
| How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. | [▲] | [▼] |
| When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! | [▲] | [▼] |
| When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. | [▲] | [▼] |
| When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather. | [▲] | [▼] |
| No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. | [▲] | [▼] |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. | [▲] | [▼] |