No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.