The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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