Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.