England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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 heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?