Society

Quotations on Society

I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.

Attractive age

Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

More brass than brains

There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.

London is too full of fogs

London is too full of fogs – and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce fogs, I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves.

Shallow people

It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Evening coat and a white tie

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Modern life

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

To know everythin

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Old days

In the old days men had the rack, now they have the press.

Australia

When I look at the map and see what an ugly country Australia is, I feel that I want to go there and see if it cannot be changed into a more beautiful form!