Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.