Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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

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