We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their…

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.

If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, …

Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.