The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

All Artists are Anarchists.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.