An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.