People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.