It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

You will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He

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

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.