Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feeling to which men have risen.