The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
General consultant to mankind.
Syllables govern the world.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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.
I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.