Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.