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.

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.

There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!