 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. |
| Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. |
| In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. |
| Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. |
| Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. |
| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. |
| Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. |
| Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. |
| Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. |
| An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. |
| The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. |
| I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. |
| An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. |
| When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. |
| Better never than late. |
| It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. |
| Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. |
| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
| We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. |
