All problems are finally scientific problems.
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.
All great art and literature is propaganda.
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
The business man – the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.