I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest ….

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad p….

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source ….

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine t….

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in….

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them..

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity..

If one can't be happy, one must be amused..

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars..

Sun, silence, and happiness..

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead..

the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feat….

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness..

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves….

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms..

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing..

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I t….

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered..

Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite p….

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease..