There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Property is organized robbery.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.