Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.

Women!” he muttered. “Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

One must live well to know what living is.

The normal economic system works itself.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.