Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.