A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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