Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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 thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.