Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.