There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.