"I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters."
"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary."
"A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night."
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
"There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America."
"Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy."
"Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."
"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion."
"The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."