What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.