The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.