I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.