Thursday, February 15, 2007

Manu quotes ... (1)

The searchable online edition is available here.

1. Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

2. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

3. The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

4. Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose.

5. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

6. The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

7. Detesting one’s relations comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

8. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

9. The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

10. There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral.

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