George Bernard Shaw

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you."

I've been away in India

how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.

Making life means making trouble

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew." They want too much for too little; and when the bargain is unreasonable beyond all bearing, the union becomes impossible: it ends in the weaker party being either discarded or borne as a cross, which is worse.

topmost hair to his tipmost toe

Nothing but some emergency or calamity great enough to break down all likes and dislikes

They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like

He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet around the ankles

She is not at all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older.