In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

With patient persistence, you will conquer any situation.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Tell me you're sorry.Tell me you don't hate me enough to hurt me this way.

It takes very little to govern good people.

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.