Society and the World

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

IN UNIVERSITY THEY DON’T TELL YOU THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE LAW IS LEARNING TO TOLERATE FOOLS.

I WISH PEOPLE WEREN’T SO SET ON BEING THEMSELVES, WHEN THAT MEANS BEING A BASTARD.

TRUE TERROR IS TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING AND DISCOVER THAT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY.

PEOPLE ALWAYS LIVE FOREVER WHEN THERE IS ANY ANNUITY TO BE PAID THEM.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

THERE IS ONLY ONE POSITION FOR AN ARTIST ANYWHERE: AND THAT IS, UPRIGHT.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

THERE ARE TWO MEN INSIDE THE ARTIST, THE POET AND THE CRAFTSMAN. ONE IS BORN A POET. ONE BECOMES A CRAFTSMAN.

EASY READING IS DAMN HARD WRITING.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to be if I Grow up'.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

The quickest way to make a million? Marry it.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.