In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.