When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.

Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Letting go of your desires will allow them to come to you much quicker

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely.