The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.