Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.