There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.