A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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

Money has no country.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.