“Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.”
“Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
“How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.”
“A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.”
“A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.”
“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”
“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”
“When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
“She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?”
“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.”
“Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.”
“Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.”
“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”
“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”
“Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
“In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.”
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.”
“What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.”
“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.”
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”