What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.