Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means makingtrouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely e...
PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
I could do without my warhorse; I could drag about in a skirt; I could let the banners and the trumpets and the knights and soldiers pass me and leave me behind as they leave the other women, if only...
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance,...
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is ne...
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of...