In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.