Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.