 It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. |
| Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. |
| What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. |
| Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. |
| It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. |
| Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. |
| It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. |
| Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. |
| Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. |
| Let me listen to me and not to them. |
| Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. |
| In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. |
| I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. |
| Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. |
| Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. |
| What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. |
| America is my country and Paris is my hometown. |
| The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. |
| An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. |
| A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. |
