Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.