With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.