Quotes "By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanetn public temptation." "Divorces are made in heaven." "One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life." "An engagement is hardly a serious one that has not been broken off at least once." "The only way to atone for being occaionally over-dresed is by being always absolutely over-educated." "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern litreature an impossiblility." "The amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is scandalous. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public." "The modern simpathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others." "The two weak points of our age are want of principle and want of profi;e." "Women only call each othre sister after they have called each other a lot of other things first.=." "Memor is the diary that chonicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened." "The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means." "Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die." "Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." "All women become like their mothers- that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." "Never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people who can't get into it do that." "In married life three is company and two is none." "If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk." "What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up." Source: Alex « BACK

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