There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.