“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”
“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”
“Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
“We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.”
“If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.”
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
“Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.”
“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
“We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
“Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''”
“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
“My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately”
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.”
“A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.”
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”