Everything Quotes

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Property is organized robbery.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

An index is a great leveller.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.