There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

Alas! it is a fearful thing
To feel another's guilt!

Duty is what one expects from others.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.