| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. |
| Age | Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. |
| Age | Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
| Age | Youth is wasted on the young. |
| Amusement | Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. |
| Ancestry | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. |
| Art and Artists | Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. |
| Artists | A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. |
| Artists | Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. |
| Artists | Bad artists always admire each others work. |
| Artists | The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. |
| Beginnings | Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. |
| Change | The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. |
| Christianity | We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |
| Christianity | Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. |
| Cleverness | Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. |
| Science | Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. |
| Cowards | Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. |
| Cynicism | The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
| Danger | In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. |
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