“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
“Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.”
“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.”
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous”
“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.”
“Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.”
“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.”
“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.”
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”
“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”
“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!”
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
“He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.”
“Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.”
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”
“Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.”
“When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.”
“No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.”
“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
“The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”