I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.