There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.