I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.