I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.