| Quotes |
Topic |
| Music | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
| Quotes | You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world. |
| All About Love | Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. |
| Appearance | Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. |
| Art and Artists | When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. |
| Bigotry | Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. |
| Courage | Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. |
| Courage | The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. |
| Golf | I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. |
| Greatness | There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. |
| Imagination | The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. |
| Literature | Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. |
| Literature | Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. |
| Literature | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
| Loyalty | We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. |
| Men and Women | If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. |
| Miscellaneous | should have printed what he meant, not what he said. |
| Miscellaneous | Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908. |
| Music | Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. |
| Patriotism | 'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.' |
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