If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

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

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.