I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.