Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.