I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.