Mediocrity weighing mediocrity in the balance, and incompetence applauding its brother -- that is the spectacle which the artistic activity of England affords us from time to time.
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Politics
One should never take sides in anything. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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I delight in talking politics. I talk them all day. But I can't bear listening to them. I don't know how the unfortunate men in the house stand these long debates.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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