stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.