Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Love, too, has to be learned.