| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. |
| All About Love | It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. |
| Cruelty | Cruelty and fear shake hands together. |
| Exaggeration | We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. |
| Exaggeration | We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. |
| Finance and Economics | To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. |
| Finance and Economics | I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. |
| Friendship | Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. |
| Inheritance | To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure. |
| Livery | Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? |
| Men and Women | A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
| Men and Women | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. |
| Men and Women | Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! |
| Modesty | Modesty is the conscience of the body. |
| Mothers | A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
| Passion | All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. |
| Passion | Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |
| Pleasure | In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. |
| Government | Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
| Government | Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. |
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