Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I never expect a soldier to think.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.