I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.