To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.