The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.