Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.