I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn’t very lovable myself.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist’s business is not that of the policeman.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
How you ought properly to spell ‘fish’ in English: ‘goti’ .
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn’t know how to handle money is to give him some.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.