Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.