Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.