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.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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...

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.