I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.