Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.