Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.