Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.