Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.