What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.