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I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

The more we know, the better our intuitions.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Money has no country.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.