It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.