All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.