During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

All great art and literature is propaganda.