Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
NOTHING IS EVER DONE IN THIS WORLD UNTIL MEN ARE PREPARED TO KILL ONE ANOTHER IF IT IS NOT DONE.
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union Official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesnt actually fall down.
No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.