A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.