I never expect a soldier to think.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.