Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.