The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself