"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly"
"Those whom the gods love grow young"
"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead"
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing"
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better"
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards"
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one"
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect"
"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism"
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized"
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"
"Charity creates a multitude of sins"
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray"
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be"
