Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.