Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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