I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.