The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.