Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.