I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.