Men should be saying "I want to become a woman." The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than wo...men wanted to become men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief h...ad folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons d...ining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, h...armless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every ot...her kind of discipline except that of narrow means--from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that tu...rns up in a footnote ... takes on the character of divine revelation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »