Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
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