Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.