I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.