After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.