It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
My father’s nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
I do not say I was ever what I would call “plain,” but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.
I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius...
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government...
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.