The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
We are sick of war, we don’t want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.