It Is A Glorious Thing To Be

After Many Unhappy Experiments In The Direction Of An Ideal Republic, It Was Found That What May Be Described As A Despotism Tempered By Dynamite Provides, On The Whole, The Most Satisfactory Description Of Ruler - An Autocrat Who Dares Not Abuse His Autocratic Power.

I Am, In Point Of Fact, A Particularly Haughty And Exclusive Person, Of Pre-adamite Ancestral Descent. You Will Understand This When I Tell You That I Can Trace My Ancestry Back To A Protoplasmal Primordial Atomic Globule.

No Good Play Is A Success; Fine Writing And High Morals Are Useless On The Stage. I Have Been Scribbling Twaddle For Thirty-five Years To Suit The Public Taste, And I Should Know.

Strike The Concertina's Melancholy String! Blow The Spirit-stirring Harp Like Any Thing! Let The Piano's Martial Blast Rouse The Echoes Of The Past

The Idiot Who Praises, With Enthusiastic Tone, All Centuries But This, And Every Country But His Own.