I want to be all used up when I die.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.