Motivational Status in English

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.

Only the shallow know themselves.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.