I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.