No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.