The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.