I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.