Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.