I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.