The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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'.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.