Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.