A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!