Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.