When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
I do not know what I think until I write it.
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it’s a man or a dog.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.