Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised.
I see when men love women they give them but a little of their lives, but women when they love give everything.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don’t see any chance of it just at present.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
