There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.