Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes