The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.