Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.