Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.