Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.