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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.


Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.


An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.


Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.


It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.


Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.


News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.


One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.


Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.


The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.