Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.