When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and...
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
Most people do not pray they only beg.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wan...
Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. They are all right from their several points of view; and their points of v...
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.