26 Quotes by William John Locke

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

She slept but little. In the morning she found habit by her bedside; she clothed herself therein and faced the day.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle – well, the less said about them the better.

Men are men and women are women. We’ve tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we’ve failed miserably.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

Every man’s first declaration of love is bathos – the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.