Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

To lose is not always failure.

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.