Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.