Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.