Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.