I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.