“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”

“Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.”

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....”