 A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. |
| Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. |
| The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. |
| Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. |
| No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. |
| Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. |
| Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. |
| When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' |
| Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. |
| Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. |
| You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. |
| Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. |
| Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. |
| Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. |
| Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. |
| A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. |
| It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. |
| Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. |
| I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. |
| How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. |
