The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

All progress means war with society.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.