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.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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