The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize