His modesty amounts to deformity.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not...

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of...

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Jean Harlow [Hollywood’s sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in...

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ”never had a chance, poor devil,” you are profoundly mistaken. One...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Of Lloyd George: he couldn’t see a belt without hitting below it.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ‘never had a chance, poor devil’, you are profoundly mistaken. One...

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never...

The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

An imitation rough diamond.