“Damn your principles! Stick to your party.”

There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There is moderation even in excess.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.