You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.