The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.