Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.