The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Lost Time is never found again.

Friendship, " said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully