The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference o….

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor..

One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to ….

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to ad….

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the ….

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation..

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf..

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians..

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic te….

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not….

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign..

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it..

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose..

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity..

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh..

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft..

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them..

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something..

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation..

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one..

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits..