Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.