On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.