The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.