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

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.