The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The flunkeyism propagated by the throne is the price we pay for its political convenience.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

The imagination cannot conceive a viler criminal than he who should build another London like the present one, nor a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

The love of fairplay is a spectator's virtue, not a principal's.