You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.