Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.