No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.