Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.