Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!