Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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