Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.