If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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 thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.