We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or cri...
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty...
Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the...