Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

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.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took