An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.