Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

Syllables govern the world.