Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.