Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Education is an admirable thing.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.