The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
Remember that I too am mortal.
You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy.
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her.
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment’s notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
I’ve posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin’s Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
I don’t. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.