Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.