Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.