There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.