Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.