Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

God is our Righteous Father.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.

Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.