Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.