 Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. |
| Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. |
| When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. |
| Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. |
| Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. |
| Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. |
| All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. |
| There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. |
| Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. |
| Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. |
| We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. |
| I put the words down and push them a bit. |
| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
| News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. |
| Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. |
| What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? |
| You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. |
| Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. |
| If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. |
| Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. |
