I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.