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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you

The chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance.

One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.

Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.

I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

At moments we are all artists.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made
so faithful is the public.

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.

The moment you're born you're done for.

The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

This place is a regular whispering-gallery.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.