I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.