“There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.”

“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”

“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”

“Plenitude, when too plenitudinous, was worse than destitution, for — obviously — what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?”

“Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.”

“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.”