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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.