Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

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

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

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 grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

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.

... France is the genius among nations.