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Money has no country.
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
Venus can see at night without eyes.
It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Old age and youth cannot live together.
Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
Men never believe a woman can do anything.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.
The more we know, the better our intuitions.
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
Strange is the influence of Marx on character.
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.
A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.
Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.
I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.
Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.