68 quotes found
“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”
“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]”
“He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.”
“Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?”
“A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)”
“What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.”
“A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)”
“The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.”
“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”
“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”
“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
“. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.”
“Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.”
“It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.”
“Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.”
“Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.”
“Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.”
“A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.”
