Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

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.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.