A Little Scandal Is An Excellent Thing;

The Song That We Hear With Our Ears Is Only The Song That Is Sung In Our Hearts.

A Man May Be A Great Statesman, And Yet Dislike His Wife, And Like Somebody Else's. A Man May Be A Great Hero, And Yet He May Have An Unseemly Passion, Or An Unpaid Tailor. But The British Public Does Not Understand This. ... It Thinks, Unhappily Or Happily As You May Choose To Consider, That Genius Should Keep The Whole Ten Commandments. Now, Genius Is Conspicuous For Breaking Them.

A Cruel Story Runs On Wheels, And Every Hand Oils The Wheels As They Run.

Excess Always Carries Its Own Retribution.

Men Are Always Optimists When They Look Inwards, And Pessimists When They Look Round Them.