Who said “I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie,…”?

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''”

“Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.”

“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?”

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”

“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”

“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”

“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate”

“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”