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.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.