Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Art must not serve might.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.