People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

Sherry, the civilized drink.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.