I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.