Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
I don’t believe in morality. I’m a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
Brains are not everything.
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.
It’s prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don’t forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having ‘a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.’ Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Those who understand evil pardon it.
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.
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it’s want of character.
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
The criminal law is no use to decent people.
Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of “Orthodoxy, True and False” and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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.
Don’t ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.