The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.