Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.