There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.