Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives