Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.