No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.