Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.