When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.