Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.