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 were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don’t we?
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Every bad thing that happens here reminds people of what they’re trying to forget.
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver![Быть дурною, но по крайней мере не лживою, не обманщицей!]
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
“Bad men have no songs.” — How is it that the Russians have songs?
