Paradoxes are the only truths.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.