Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt