| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Americans | When you concider how indifferent Americans are to the quality and cooking of the food they put in their insides, it cannot but strike you as peculiar that they should take such pride in the mechanical appliances they use for its excretion.
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| Criticism | People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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| Death | Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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| Habits | The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are so much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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| Humanity | The nature of men and women -- their essential nature -- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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| Love | Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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| Mornings | It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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| Principles | You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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| Wit | She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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