The secret of life is in art.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized