Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant it is the snob, the would-be-sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
For tens of millions of people television has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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