Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.