Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.