The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.