It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

The best revenge is to live well.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.