A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.