No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Walls don't fall without effort.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

When I have it in mind, I write it out.

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.