Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.