No nice men are good at getting taxis.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.