If a thing is really worth doing, it must be done even badly.
There are only three things in the world that women do not understand: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
Life is too good to enjoy.
Journalism is genuine when they are informed: "Lord John is dead" - by people who didn't even know Lord John lived.
Dealing with politics is like blowing your nose or texting your fiancee. You have to do this yourself, even if you don't know how.
Evil creeps in like disease. The good runs panting, like the doctor.
From pure humanity to hatred is not far.
By mocking mediocrity, we run the major risk of becoming mediocre.
Intellectuals are divided into two categories: some worship the intellect, and others use it.
Art is always a limitation. The meaning of each painting is between the frames of its frame.
Every politician is a promising politician.
Everyone thinks about public opinion and acts in the name of public opinion, that is, in the name of everyone, less in his own.
Everyone wants to be informed honestly, impartially, fairly - and in full accordance with their opinions.
What's the point of fighting against the stupid tyrant in London, if such a tyrant is all-powerful in your family too?
Carlyle says that men in the great majority are fools; Christianity, however, pronounced itself more precisely and categorically: they are all fools.
We call a classic a writer whom we can praise without reading.
When it is said that the Anglo-Boer war should not be blamed until the moment it is finished, it is not even worth answering; with the same success we can say that we cannot block the mother's path to the abyss, because for now she has not fallen.
When humanity stops producing happy people, it starts producing optimists.
Sacrilege dies with religion; if you doubt this, try blaspheming against Odin.
Critics do not ignore the sage advice not to throw stones if you live in a greenhouse.
Idiots are attracted to intellect like cats are attracted to fire.
The frivolity of our society is manifested in the fact that it has long since learned to laugh at itself.
It's easy to be crazy; it is easy to be a heretic.
Literature and fiction are totally different things. Literature is only a luxury, fiction - a need.
Any fashion is a form of madness. That is why Christianity is out of date, because it is healthy.
Love doesn't blind you, dammit! - love binds you, and the tighter it does, the clearer you see.
Love, by its very nature, fetters itself, and the institution of marriage only did a service to the common man, bound him by his word.
Sentimental people every day and at all hours are the most dangerous enemies of society. Dealing with them is like watching endless poetic sunsets since early morning.
Materialists and madmen do not know doubt.
I am always deeply affected by a peculiar property of my countrymen: an unjustified arrogance combined with an immeasurable modesty.