Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.