It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.