My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.