To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.