All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.