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It Is Not Disbelief That Is Dangerous To Our Society; It Is Belief.

You Use A Glass Mirror To See Your Face; You Use Works Of Art To See Your Soul.

That Is The Injustice Of A Woman's Lot. A Woman Has To Bring Up Her Children; And That Means To Restrain Them, To Deny Them Things They Want, To Set Them Tasks, To Punish Them When They Do Wrong, To Do All The Unpleasant Things. And Then The Father, Who Has Nothing To Do But Pet Them And Spoil Them, Comes In When All Her Work Is Done And Steals Their Affection From Her.

It Is Said That Every People Has The Government It Deserves. It Is More To The Point That Every Government Has The Electorate It Deserves; For The Orator Of The Front Bench Can Edify Or Debauch An Ignorant Electorate At Will.

The Minorities Are Sometimes Right. The Majorities Never.

Death Is For Many Of Us The Gate Of Hell; But We Are Inside On The Way Out, Not Outside On The Way In.

Popular Christianity Has For Its Emblem A Gibbet, For Its Chief Sensation A Sanginary Execution After Torture, For Its Central Mystery Is An Insane Vengeance Bought Off By A Trumpery Expiation. But There Is A Nobler And Profounder Christianity Which Affirms The Sacred Mystery Of Equality And Forbids The Glaring Futility And Folly Of Vengeance.

A Tranquil Woman Can Go On Sewing Longer Than An Angry Man Can Go On Fuming.

Christianity Might Be A Good Thing If Anyone Ever Tried It.

To Withhold Deserved Praise Lest It Should Make Its Object Conceited Is As Dishonest As To Withhold Payment Of A Just Debt Lest Your Creditor Should Spend The Money Badly.

Those Who Can’t Change Their Minds Can’t Change Anything.

People Changing

In A Battle All You Need To Make You Fight Is A Little Hot Blood And The Knowledge That It's More Dangerous To Lose Than To Win.

Islam Is The Best Religion And Muslims Are The Worst Followers

All Roads End At The Grave, Which Is The Gate To Nothingness.

One Man That Has A Mind And Knows It Can Always Beat Ten Men Who Haven't And Don't.

Censorship Ends In Logical Completeness When Nobody Is Allowed To Read Any Books Except The Books That Nobody Can Read.

It Is Always Necessary To Overstate A Cast Startlingly To Make People Sit Up And Listen To It, And To Frighten Them Into Acting On It.

Oh, Well, If You Want Original Conversations, You'd Better Go And Talk To Yourself.

They Tell Me That So-and-so, Who Does Not Write Prefaces, Is No Charlatan. Well, I Am. I First Caught The Ear Of The British Public On A Cart In Hyde Park, To The Blaring Of Brass Bands,and This . . . Because . . . I Am A Natural-born Mountebank.

I'm Sick Of All The Reasonable People: They See All The Reasons For Doing Nothing

As Long As You Don't Fly Openly In The Face Of Society, Society Doesn't Ask Any Inconvenient Questions; And It Makes Precious Short Work Of The Cads Who Do. There Are No Secrets Better Kept Than The Secrets Everybody Guesses.

Don't Ask Me For Promises Until I Know What I Am Promising.

Life Is Not Meant To Be Easy, My Child; But Take Courage: It Can Be Delightful.

Alcohol Is The Anesthesia By Which We Endure The Operation Of Life.

When A Stupid Man Is Doing Something He Is Ashamed Of, He Always Declares That It Is His Duty.

Criminals Do Not Die By The Hands Of The Law. They Die By The Hands Of Other Men.

There Is Nothing More Dangerous Than The Conscience Of A Bigot.

Dangerous Things

Men Have To Do Some Awfully Mean Things To Keep Up Their Respectability.

I Aint Such A Mug As To Put Up My Children To All I Know Myself.

Napoleon: What Shall We Do With This Soldier, Giuseppe? Everything He Says Is Wrong. Giuseppe: Make Him A General, Excellency, And Then Everything He Says Will Be Right.

The World Is Populated In The Main By People Who Should Not Exist

We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts.

Vegetarian Diet

Life On Board A Pleasure Steamer Violates Every Moral And Physical Condition Of Healthy Life Except Fresh Air. . . . It Is A Guzzling, Lounging, Gambling, Dog's Life. The Only Alternative To Excitement Is Irritability.

The Fact That A Believer Is Happier Than A Skeptic Is No More To The Point Than The Fact That A Drunken Man Is Happier Than A Sober One.

No Man Ever Believes That The Bible Means What It Says: He Is Always Convinced That It Says What He Means.

The Greatest Thing In Life Is To Die Young - But Delay It As Long As Possible.

In A Hospital They Throw You Out Into The Street Before You Are Half Cured, But In A Nursing Home They Don't Let You Out Till You Are Dead.

Any Man Who Is Not A Communist At The Age Of Twenty Is A Fool. Any Man Who Is Still A Communist At The Age Of Thirty Is An Even Bigger Fool.

The Secret Of Being Miserable Is To Have Leisure To Bother About Whether You Are Happy Or Not. The Cure For It Is Occupation, Because Occupation Means Pre-occupation; And The Pre-occupied Person Is Neither Happy Nor Unhappy, But Simply Alive And Active. That Is Why It Is Necessary To Happiness That One Should Be Tired.

The Great Secret, Eliza, Is Not Having Bad Manners Or Good Manners Or Any Other Particular Sort Of Manners, But Having The Same Manner For All Human Souls: In Short, Behaving As If You Were In Heaven, Where There Are No Thirdclass Carriages, And One Soul Is As Good As Another.

When Your Eyes Are Fixed In The Stare Of Unconsciousness, And Your Throat Coughs The Last Gasping Breath - As One Dragged In The Dark To A Great Precipice - What Assistance Are A Wife And Child?

People Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It.

This Planet Is Obviously Being Used As An Insane Asylum By Other Planets.

It Is More Dangerous To Be A Great Prophet Or Poet Than To Promote Twenty Companies For Swindling Simple Folk Out Of Their Savings.

When Satan Makes Impure Verses, Allah Sends A Divine Tune To Cleanse Them.

My Father Must Have Had Some Elementary Education For He Could Read And Write And Keep Accounts Inaccurately

In My Dreams Is A Country Where The State Is The Church And The Church The People: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Commonwealth In Which Work Is Play And Play Is Life: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Temple In Which The Priest Is The Worshiper And The Worshiper The Worshipped: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Godhead In Which All Life Is Human And All Humanity Divine: Three In One And One In Three.

I Often Quote Myself. It Adds Spice To My Conversation.

If A Man Is Indolent, Let Him Be Poor. If He Is Drunken, Let Him Be Poor.... Also--somewhat Inconsistently--blessed Are The Poor!

Give A Man Health And A Course To Steer, And He'll Never Stop To Trouble About Whether He's Happy Or Not.

I Am A Sort Of Collector Of Religions: And The Curious Thing Is That I Find I Can Believe In Them All.

The Apparent Multiplication Of Gods Is Bewildering At The First Glance, But You Soon Discover That They Are The Same God. There Is Always One Uttermost God Who Defies Personification. This Makes Hinduism The Most Tolerant Religion In The World, Because Its One Transcendent God Includes All Possible Gods. In Fact Hinduism Is So Elastic And So Subtle That The Most Profound Methodist, And Crudest Idolater, Are Equally At Home With It.

Literature Is Like Any Other Trade; You Will Never Sell Anything Unless You Go To The Right Shop.

When The Horrors Of Anarchy Force Us To Set Up Laws That Forbid Us To Fight And Torture One Another For Sport, We Still Snatch At Every Excuse For Declaring Individuals Outside The Protection Of Law And Torturing Them To Our Hearts Content.

There Is Nothing So Bad Or So Good That You Will Not Find Englishmen Doing It; But You Will Never Find An Englishman In The Wrong. He Does Everything On Principle. He Fights You On Patriotic Principles; He Robs You On Business Principles; He Enslaves You On Imperial Principles; He Bullies You On Manly Principles; He Supports His King On Loyal Principles And Cuts Off His King's Head On Republican Principles.

Have You Ever Met A Man Of Good Character Where Women Are Concerned?

When You Prevent Me From Doing Anything I Want To Do, That Is Persecution; When I Prevent You From Doing Anything You Want To Do, That Is Law, Order, And Morals.

The Confusing Of Marriage With Morality Has Done More To Destroy The Conscience Of The Human Race Than Any Other Single Error.

All My Life Affection Has Been Showered Upon Me, And Every Forward Step I Have Made Has Been Taken In Spite Of It.

The Anti-vivisector Does Not Deny That Physiologists Must Make Experiments And Even Take Chances With New Methods. He Says That They Must Not Seek Knowledge By Criminal Methods, Just As They Must Not Make Money By Criminal Methods. He Does Not Object To Galileo Dropping Cannon Balls From The Top Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa; But He Would Object To Shoving Off Two Dogs Or American Tourists.

A Serious Illness Or A Death Advertises The Doctor Exactly As A Hanging Advertises The Barrister Who Defended The Person Hanged.

Serious Illness

Marriage Is Tolerable Enough In Its Way If Youre Easygoing And Dont Expect Too Much From It. But It Doesnt Bear Thinking About.

Every Girl Has A Right To Be Loved.

When A Prisoner Sees The Door Of His Dungeon Open, He Dashes For It Without Stopping To Think Where He Shall Get His Dinner Outside.

Life Is A Flame That Is Always Burning Itself Out; But It Catches Fire Again Every Time A Child Is Born. Life Is Greater Than Death, And Hope Than Despair.

Man Is The Only Animal Of Which I Am Thoroughly And Cravenly Afraid...there Is No Harm In A Well-fed Lion. It Has No Ideals, No Sect, No Party.

I Don't Want To Talk Grammar. I Want To Talk Like A Lady.

The Only Power A God Can Teach Is The Power Of Doing Without Happiness.

Dancing Is A Perpendicular Expression Of A Horizontal Desire.

The Function Of The Actor Is To Make The Audience Imagine For The Moment That Real Things Are Happening To Real People.

The Test Of Good Education Is Seeing How It Behaves In A Fight.

Every Step Of Progress Means A Duty Repudiated, And A Scripture Torn Up.

God Made The World As An Artist And That Is Why The World Must Learn From Its Artists.

A Man's Behaviour May Be Quite Harmless And Even Beneficial, When He Ismorally Behaving Like A Scoundrel. And He May Do Great Harm When He Is Morally Acting On The Highest Principles.

Trade Unionism Is Not Socialism. It Is The Capitalism Of The Proletariat.

Statistics Show That Of Those Who Contract The Habit Of Eating, Very Few Survive.

Do Not Try To Live Forever. You Will Not Succeed.

My Method Is To Take The Utmost Trouble To Find The Right Thing To Say, And Then To Say It With The Utmost Levity.

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Martyrdom Is The Only Path To Immortality That Requires No Talent Whatsoever.

The Golden Rule Is That There Are No Golden Rules.

Greatness Is One Of The Sensations Of Littleness

Our Lives Are Shaped Not As Much By Our Experiences As By Our Expectations.

When A Man Of Normal Habits Is Ill, Everyone Hastens To Assure Him That He Is Going To Recover. When A Vegetarian Is Ill (which Fortunately Very Seldom Happens), Everyone Assures Him That He Is Going To Die, And That They Told Him So, And That It Serves Him Right. They Implore Him To Take At Least A Little Gravy, So As To Give Himself A Chance Of Lasting Out The Night

It Is In The Hour Of Trial That A Man Finds His True Profession.

Every Man To Whom Salvation Is Offered Has An Inalienable Natural Right To Say 'no, Thank You: I Prefer To Retain My Full Moral Responsibility: It Is Not Good For Me To Be Able To Load A Scapegoat With My Sins: I Should Be Less Careful How I Committed Them If I Knew They Would Cost Me Nothing.

Nobel Prize Money Is A Life-belt Thrown To A Swimmer Who Has Already Reached The Shore In Safety.

In A Stupid Nation The Man Of Genius Becomes A God : Everybody Worships Him And Nobody Does His Will.

Very Nice Sort Of Place, Oxford, I Should Think, For People That Like That Sort Of Place. They Teach You To Be A Gentleman There. In The Polytechnic They Teach You To Be An Engineer Or Such Like. See?

War Can So Easily Be Gilt With Romance And Heroism And Solemn National Duty And Patriotism And The Like By Persons Whose Superficial Literary And Oratorical Talent Covers An Abyss Of Godforsaken Folly.

Revolutions Have Never Lightened The Burden Of Tyranny; They Have Only Shifted It To Another Shoulder.

We All Go About Longing For Love: It Is The First Need Of Our Natures, The Loudest Cry Of Our Hearts.

Oh, The Frontier Of Hell And Heaven Is Only The Difference Between Two Ways Of Looking At Things.

A Perpetual Holiday Is A Good Working Definition Of Hell.

When People Shake Their Heads Because We Are Living In A Restless Age, Ask Them How They Would Like To Life In A Stationary One, And Do Without Change

I Prefer The Man Who Calls His Nonsense A Mystery To Him Who Who Pretends It Is A Weighed, Measured, Analyzed Fact.

I Like Flowers, I Also Like Children, But I Do Not Chop Their Heads Off And Keep Them In Bowls Of Water Around The House.

Of The Three Official Objects Of Our Prison System: Vengeance, Deterrence, And Reformation Of The Criminal, Only One Is Achieved; And That Is The One Which Is Nakedly Abominable.

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...

All Censorships Exist To Prevent Anyone From Challenging Current Conceptions And Existing Institutions. All Progress Is Initiated By Challenging Current Conceptions, And Executed By Supplanting Existing Institutions. Consequently, The First Condition Of Progress Is The Removal Of Censorship.

I Never Resist Temptation, Because I Have Found That Things That Are Bad For Me Do Not Tempt Me.

Those Who Understand The Steam Engine And The Electric Telegraph Spend Their Lives In Trying To Replace Them With Something Better.

Women Have Been A Ghastly Nuisance In My Life.

My Religious Convictions And Scientific Views Cannot At Present Be More Specifically Defined Than As Those Of A Believer In Creative Revolution. I Desire That No Public Monument Or Work Of Art Or Inscription Or Sermon Or Ritual Service Commemorating Me Shall Suggest That I Accepted The Tenets Peculiar To Any Established Church Or Denomination Nor Take The Form Of A Cross Or Any Other Instrument Of Torture Or Symbol Of Blood Sacrifice.

A Lifetime Of Happiness! No Man Alive Could Bear It: It Would Be Hell On Earth.

Be Like The Sun And Meadow, Which Are Not In The Least Concerned About The Coming Winter.

German And Spanish Are Accessible To Foreigners: English Is Not Accessible Even To Englishmen.

The Art Of Manipulating Public Opinion, Which Is A Necessary Art For The Democratic Politician, And, Like Other Arts, Is Sometimespractised With Greater Virtuosity By Knaves Than By Honest Men (who Are Apt To Disdain It), Has A Different Technique In Different Countries. For Instance, In England We Excel In Whitewashing: In America They Excel In Tarring And Feathering. We Strain Our Nerves And Stretch Our Consciences To Avoid A Scandal: Americans Do The Same To Make One.

You Cannot Learn To Skate Without Making Yourself Ridiculous - The Ice Of Life Is Slippery.

The Practical Question, Then, Is What To Do With The Children. Tolerate Them At Home We Will Not. Let Them Run Loose In The Streets We Dare Not Until Our Streets Become Safe Places For Children, Which, To Our Utter Shame, They Are Not At Present, Though They Can Hardly Be Worse Than Some Homes And Some Schools.

Home Is The Girl's Prison And The Woman's Workhouse.

I Myself Have Been Particularly Careful Never To Say A Civil Word To The United States. I Have Scoffed At Their Inhabitants As A Nation Of Villagers. I Have Defined The 100 % American As 99 % An Idiot. And They Adore Me.

Sherlock Holmes Was A Drug Addict Without A Single Amiable Trait.

Don't Wait For The Right Opportunity: Create It.

In Truth , Mankind Cannot Be Saved From Without, By Schoolmasters Or Any Other Sort Of Masters: It Can Only Be Lamed And Enslaved By Them. It Is Said That If You Wash A Cat It Will Never Again Wash Itself. This May Or May Not Be True : What Is Certain Is That If You Teach A Man Anything He Will Never Learn It; And If You Cure Him Of A Disease He Will Be Unable To Cure Himself The Next Time It Attacks Him.

Never Fret For An Only Son, The Idea Of Failure Will Never Occur To Him.

Life Is Too Short For Men To Take It Seriously.

There May Be Some Doubt As To Who Are The Best People To Have Charge Of Children, But There Can Be No Doubt That Parents Are The Worst.

A Soldier Is An Anachronism Of Which We Must Get Rid.

He Said That Private Practice In Medicine Ought To Be Put Down By Law. When I Asked Him Why, He Said That Private Doctors Were Ignorant Licensed Murders.

It Is The First Duty Of Every Man Not To Be Poor.

As Long As More People Will Pay Admission To A Theater To See A Naked Body Than To See A Naked Brain, The Drama Will Languish.

The Word Morality, If We Met It In The Bible, Would Surprise Us As Much As The Word Telephone Or Motor Car.

Our First Duty, To Which Every Other Consideration Should Be Sacrificed, Is Not To Be Poor.

I Have Very Carefully Studied Islam And The Life Of Its Prophet (pbuh). I Have Done So Both As A Student Of History And As A Critic. And I Have Come To Conclusion That Muhammad (pbuh) Was Indeed A Great Man And A Deliverer And Benefactor Of Mankind Which Was Till Then Writhing Under The Most Agonising Pain.

Custom Will Reconcile People To Any Atrocity, And Fashion Will Drive Them To Acquire Any Custom.

No Doubt It Is Easy To Demostrate That Property Will Destroy Society Unless Society Destroys It.

We Must Not Stay As We Are, Doing Always What Was Done Last Time, Or We Shall Stick In The Mud. Yet Neither Must We Undertake A New World As Catastrophic Utopians, And Wreck Our Civilization In Our Hurry To Mend It.

Hatred Is The Coward's Revenge For Being Intimidated.

A Socialist Is Somebody Who Doesn't Have Anything, And Is Ready To Divide It Up Equally Among Everybody.

People Must Not Be Forced To Adopt Me As Their Favourite Author, Even For Their Own Good.

An American Has No Sense Of Privacy. He Does Not Know What It Means.there Is No Such Thing In The Country.

Life Levels All Men. Death Reveals The Eminent.

Although I Cannot Lay An Egg, I Am A Very Good Judge Of Omelettes

The Worst Cliques Are Those Which Consist Of One Man.

All Great Art And Literature Is Propaganda.

This Is The True Joy Of Life-the Being Used For A Purpose Recognized By Yourself As A Mighty One, The Being Thoroughly Worn Out Before You Are Thrown To The Scrap-heap; The Being A Force Of Nature Instead Of A Feverish, Selfish Clod Of Ailments And Grievances.

Marx's Kapital Is Not A Treatise On Socialism; It Is A Gerrymand Against The Bourgeoisie. It Was Supposed To Be Written For The Working Class, But The Working Man Respects The Bourgeoisie And Wants To Be A Bourgeoisie. Marx Never Got A Hold Of Him For A Moment. It Was The Revolting Sons Of The Bourgeoisie Itself, Like Myself, That Painted The Flag Red. The Middle And Upper Classes Are The Revolutionary Element In Society. The Proletariat Is The Conservative Element.

You Will Think Less Of The Art, When You Know The Artist

I Appeal To The Chemists To Discover A Humane Gas That Will Kill Instantly And Painlessly. In Short- A Gentlemanly Gas Deadly By All Means, But Humane, Not Cruel.

Rich Men Without Convictions Are More Dangerous In Modern Society Than Poor Women Without Chastity.

Nobody Supposes That Doctors Are Less Virtuous Than Judges; But A Judge Whose Salary And Reputation Depended On Whether The Verdict Was For Plaintiff Or Defendant, Prosecutor Or Prisoner, Would Be As Little Trusted As A General In The Pay Of The Enemy.

Democracy Is A Device That Insures We Shall Be Governed No Better Than We Deserve.

How You Ought Properly To Spell 'fish' In English: 'goti' .

Has Fear Ever Held A Man Back From Anything He Really Wanted?

Marriage Is The Most Licentious Of Human Institutions.

Even A Vortex Is A Vortex In Something. You Can't Have A Whirlpool Without Water; And You Can't Have A Vortex Without Gas, Or Molecules Or Atoms Or Ions Or Electrons Or Something, Not Nothing.

The Trouble With Her Is That She Lacks The Power Of Conversation But Not The Power Of Speech.

How Can What An Englishman Believes Be Hearsay? It Is A Contradiction In Terms.

Your Father Is A Fool Skin Deep; But You Are A Fool To Your Very Marrow.

Money Is Indeed The Most Important Thing In The World; And All Sound And Successful Personal And National Morality Should Have This Fact For Its Basis.

Miracles, In The Sense Of Phenomena We Cannot Explain, Surround Us On Every Hand: Life Itself Is The Miracle Of Miracles.

If You Don't Begin To Be A Revolutionist At The Age Of Twenty, Then At Fifty You Will Be A Most Impossible Old Fossil. If You Area Red Revolutionary At The Age Of Twenty, You Have Some Chance Of Being Up-to-date When You Are Forty!

The Quality Of A Play Is The Quality Of Its Ideas.

Ye Poor Posterity, Think Not That Ye Are The First. Other Fools Before Ye Have Seen The Sun Rise And Set, And The Moon Change Her Shape And Her Hour. As They Were So Ye Are; And Yet Not So Great; For The Pyramids My People Built Stand To This Day; Whilst The Dustheaps On Which Ye Slave, And Which Ye Call Empires, Scatter In The Wind Even As Ye Pile Your Dead Sons' Bodies On Them To Make Yet More Dust.

The Only Time My Education Was Interrupted Was When I Was In School.

If You Do Things Merely Because You Think Some Other Fool Expects You To Do Them, And He Expects You To Do Them Because He Thinks You Expect Him To Expect You To Do Them, It Will End In Everybody Doing What Nobody Wants To Do, Which Is In My Opinion A Silly State Of Things.

The Notion That Inspiration Is Something That Happened Thousands Of Years Ago, And Was Then Finished And Done With. . . The Theory That God Retired From Business At That Period And Has Not Been Heard From Since, Is As Silly As It Is Blasphemous.

Every Profession Is A Conspiracy Against The Laity.

A Vegetarian Is Not A Person Who Lives On Vegetables, Any More Than A Catholic Is A Person Who Lives On Cats.

Live In Contact With Dreams And You Will Get Something Of Their Charm: Live In Contact With Facts And You Will Get Something Of Their Brutality. I Wish I Could Find A Country To Live In Where The Facts Were Not Brutal And The Dreams Not Real.

Most Of The Money Given By Rich People In "charity" Is Made Up Of Conscience Money, "ransom," Political Bribery, And Bids For Titles.... One Buys Moral Credit By Signing A Cheque, Which Is Easier Than Turning A Prayer Wheel.

You Do Not Settle Whether An Argument Is Justified By Merely Showing That It Is Of Some Use. The Distinction Is Not Between Useful And Useless Experiments But Between Barbarous And Civilized Behaviour. Vivisection Is A Social Evil Because If It Advances Human Knowledge, It Does So At The Expense Of Human Character.

Marriage Is Good Enough For The Lower Classes: They Have Facilities For Desertion That Are Denied To Us.

My Own Education Has Been Entirely Controversial: That Is Why I Know What I Am Writing About; And Appear Eccentric To Dogmatically Educated Old School Ties Whose Heads Are Stuffed With Obsolete Shibboleths.

Female Murderers Get Sheaves Of Offers Of Marriage.

The Surest Way To Ruin A Man Who Doesn't Know How To Handle Money Is To Give Him Some.

Liberty Is The Breath Of Life To Nations.

Happy Independence Day

Money Is The Counter That Enables Life To Be Lived Socially; It Is Life As Truly As Sovereigns And Banknotes Are Money.

No Child Should Be Brought Up To Suppose That Its Food And Clothes Come Down From Heaven Or Are Miraculously Conjured From Empty Space By Papa. Loathsome As We Have Made The Idea Of Duty (like The Idea Of Work) We Must Habituate Children To A Sense Of Repayable Obligation To The Community For What They Consume And Enjoy, And Inculcate The Repayment As A Point Of Honor.

We Learn From History That We Learn Nothing From History.

The Whole Strength Of England Lies In The Fact That The Enormous Majority Of The English People Are Snobs.

I Dread Success. To Have Succeeded Is To Have Finished One's Business On Earth, Like The Male Spider Who Is Killed By The Female The Moment He Has Succeeded In His Courtship. I Like The State Of Continual Becoming, With A Goal In Front And Not Behind.

We Are The Masters At The Moment, And Not Only At The Moment, But For A Very Long Time To Come.

Bible Worship, Though At Its Best It May Achieve Sublimity By Keeping Its Head In The Skies, May Also Make Itself Both Ridiculousand Dangerous By Having Its Feet Off The Ground.

When Commenting On The Turmoil And Disorder Of The World, If The Other Planets Are Inhabited, They Must Be Using This Earth As Their Insane Asylum.

He Who Has Nothing To Assert Has No Style And Can Have None: He Who Has Something To Assert Will Go As Far In Power Of Style As Its Momentousness And His Conviction Will Carry Him

We Know Now That The Soul Is The Body, And The Body The Soul. They Tell Us They Are Different Because They Want To Persuade Us That We Can Keep Our Souls If We Let Them Make Slaves Of Our Bodies.

Every Person Who Has Mastered A Profession Is A Skeptic Concerning It.

Nothing Is More Dreadful Than A Husband Who Keeps Telling You Everything He Thinks, And Always Wants To Know What You Think.

A Veteran Journalist Has Never Had Time To Think Twice Before He Writes.

Success Does Not Consist In Never Making Mistakes But In Never Making The Same One A Second Time.

I Tell You That As Long As I Can Conceive Something Better Than Myself I Cannot Be Easy Unless I Am Striving To Bring It Into Existence Or Clearing The Way For It.

The More I See Of The Moneyed Classes, The More I Understand The Guillotine.

We Are Told That When Jehovah Created The World He Saw That It Was Good What Would He Say Now

No Englishman Is Ever Fairly Beaten

Vivisection Is A Social Evil Because If It Advances Human Knowledge, It Does So At The Expense Of Human Character.

What A Heartbreaking Job It Is Trying To Combine Authors For Their Own Protection... The First Lesson I Learned Was That When You Take The Field For The Authors You Will Be Safer Without A Breastplate Than Without A Backplate.

The Devil Can Quote Shakespeare For His Own Purpose.

A Happy Family Is But An Earlier Heaven.

A Love Affair Should Always Be A Honeymoon. And The Only Way To Make Sure Of That Is To Keep Changing The Man; For The Same Man Can Never Keep It Up.

I Like To Quote Myself Frequently And Often, It Makes Me Sound Much More Intelligent Than I Actually Am.

I Am Very Subtle; But Man Is Deeper In His Thought Than I Am. The Woman Knows That There Is No Such Thing As Nothing: The Man Knows That There Is No Such Day As Tomorrow. I Do Well To Worship Them.

The Art Of Government Is The Organization Of Idolatry. The Bureaucracy Consists Of Functionaries; The Aristocracy, Of Idols; The Democracy, Of Idolaters. The Populace Cannot Understand The Bureaucracy: It Can Only Worship The National Idols.

Morality Is Not Respectability.

Morality And Ethics

What I Say Today Everybody Will Say Tomorrow, Though They Will Not Remember Who Put It Into Their Heads. Indeed They Will Be Right For I Never Remember Who Puts Things Into My Head : It Is The Zeitgeist.

Those Who Do Not Know How To Live Must Make A Merit Of Dying.

Clever And Attractive Women Do Not Want To Vote; They Are Willing To Let Men Govern As Long As They Govern Men.

There Are Some Experiences In Life Which Should Not Be Demanded Twice From Any Man, And One Of Them Is Listening To The Brahms Requiem.

Disobedience, The Rarest And Most Courageous Of The Virtues, Is Seldom Distinguished From Neglect, The Laziest And Commonest Of The Vices.

A Drama Critic Is A Man Who Leaves No Turn Unstoned.

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