There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.