Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.