You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.