Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.