Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself donโt interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.