Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Only my own genius.
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
The secret of life is in art.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
Life would be dull without them.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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