Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.