Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.