Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.