Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.