Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary