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Vote:   | A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. |
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Vote: | A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. |
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Vote: | A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. |
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Vote: | All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. |
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Vote: | Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. |
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Vote: | Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. |
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Vote: | Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. |
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Vote: | Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. |
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Vote: | How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! |
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Vote: | How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? |
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Vote: | How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! |
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Vote: | If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. |
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Vote: | If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. |
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Vote: | If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. |
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Vote: | It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. |
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Vote: | It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. |
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Vote: | It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. |
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Vote: | Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. |
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Vote: | Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. |
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Vote: | Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. |
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Vote: | People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. |
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Vote: | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. |
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Vote: | Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. |
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Vote: | Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. |
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Vote: | The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. |
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Vote: | The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. |
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Vote: | The newest books are those that never grow old. |
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Vote: | The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. |
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Vote: | The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. |
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Vote: | The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. |
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Vote: | Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. |
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Vote: | There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. |
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Vote: | There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. |
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Vote: | There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. |
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Vote: | This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. |
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Vote: | Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. |
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Vote: | To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. |
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Vote: | We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. |
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Vote: | What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! |
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Vote: | What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. |
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Vote: | What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. |
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Vote: | What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? |
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Vote: | What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? |
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Vote: | What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? |
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Vote: | What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? |
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Vote: | When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. |