Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.