The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.