“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”

“The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.”

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.”

“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”