To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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