The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.