There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.