You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.