I can resist anything but temptation.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Wisdom comes with winters.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.