If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.