Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden Category: Honesty
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. – Lin Yutang Category: Honesty
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. – Charles Baudelaire Category: best
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore Category: Friendship
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. – Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932 Category: Carpe Diem