A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.