I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.