There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.