We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.