Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.