I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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