Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.