A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.