There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.