Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.