Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.