My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

En cuanto a una vida echada a perder, no hay vida echada a perder más que aquella cuyo crecimiento queda detenido. Si quieres destrozar un carácter, lo único que tienes que hacer es intentar reformarlo

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

An egg is always an adventure; it may be different each time

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.