All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.