I have often noticed that a bribe...has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance-s…

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians-it's an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We…

Cynicism is cheap-you can buy it at any Monoprix store-it's built into all poor-quality goods.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.