You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

Selfie-centered person!

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.