Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

No need to queue up

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.