Occupation: Writer Birth: February 6, 1879 Death: July 27, 1944
The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about o….
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry f….
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may ….
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had defini….
You can bear anything if it is not your fault..
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly w….
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism..
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the serva….
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were inven….
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not ma….
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No ….
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any i….
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amuse….
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on other….
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give..
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing..
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings..
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't.….
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a meth….
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones..
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit..