TuesdayNov 04, 2025
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
'After all,' as a pretty girl once said to me, 'women are a sex by themselves, so to speak.'
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint.
She was one of the people who say 'I dont know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
'I don't', she added, 'know anything about music, really. But I know what I like'.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in our nature.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Everyone, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by check more lightheartedly than he pays little in cash.
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