We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Self-love is born out of love of another.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income