We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Morality is not respectability.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.