When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense..

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative..

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow ….

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar..

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry..

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life..

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us..

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal..

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it..

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time..

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires..

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love..

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not..

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic t….

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it..

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies..

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a ….

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude..

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about o….

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chief….

Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotte….