There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author’s equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don’t are the wrong ones.
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
This souls’prison we call England.
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
A sensitive boy’s humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands .