Learn Through Quotations

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.”

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“The advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray.”

“I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.”

“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women... merely adored.”

“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”