What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.