All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.