A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.