It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has all too much a professional air.