No Englishman is ever fairly beaten.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
Don’t waste time collecting other people’s autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
If ‘Pygmalion’ is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.