The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.