The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.