The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.