Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel’s blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
Every girl has a right to be loved.
My way of joking is to tell the truth.
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as “cynism” by people who lack it.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.