Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.