Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.