If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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

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

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.