He who has never hoped can never despair

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.