Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

You see things and say: Why? But I dream things that never where; and I say: Why not?

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.