Half a truth is better than no politics.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.