My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.