Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

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

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.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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.