Music is the brandy of the damned.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

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.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat