Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.