Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.