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.

Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

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