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

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

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

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

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.