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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished."
Life

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."
People

"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."
Friendship

"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."
Humor

"I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate."
Hate

"A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you."
Society

"Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished."
Existence

"I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life."
Life

"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
Events

"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
Humor
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