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

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.