Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. Votes: 16
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. Votes: 16
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. Votes: 12
Youth is wasted on the young. Votes: 0
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Votes: 0
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. Votes: 0
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. Votes: 0
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. Votes: 0
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. Votes: 0
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. Votes: 0
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. Votes: 0
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Votes: 0
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Votes: 0
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. Votes: 0
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last." Votes: 0
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. Votes: 0
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. Votes: 0
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. Votes: 0
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. Votes: 0
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. Votes: 0
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do Votes: 0
Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill. Votes: 0
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. Votes: 0
Music is the brandy of the damned. Votes: 0
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. Votes: 0
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. Votes: 0
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. Votes: 0
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. Votes: 0
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. Votes: 0
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood Votes: 0
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Votes: 0
Never repeat old grievances. Votes: 0
The harder I work the more I live. Votes: 0
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. Votes: 0
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. Votes: 0
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Votes: 0
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. Votes: 0
Morality is not respectability. Votes: 0
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? Votes: 0
Property is organized robbery. Votes: 0
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! Votes: 0
Better never than late. Votes: 0
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. Votes: 0
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. Votes: 0
Syllables govern the world. Votes: 0
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Votes: 0
[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. Votes: 0
Hell is full of musical amateurs. Votes: 0
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat Votes: 0
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. Votes: 0
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. Votes: 0
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. Votes: 0
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. Votes: 0
Whisky is liquid sunshine. Votes: 0
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? Votes: 0
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. Votes: 0
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. Votes: 0
Virtue is insufficient temptation. Votes: 0
General consultant to mankind. Votes: 0
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. Votes: 0
I want to be all used up when I die. Votes: 0
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. Votes: 0
A great social reformer. Votes: 0
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. Votes: 0
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. Votes: 0
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. Votes: 0
All Artists are Anarchists. Votes: 0
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. Votes: 0
All progress means war with society. Votes: 0
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. Votes: 0
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. Votes: 0
Altogether too many sheep Votes: 0
An index is a great leveller. Votes: 0
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. Votes: 0
Brains are not everything. Votes: 0
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things. Votes: 0
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. Votes: 0
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. Votes: 0
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. Votes: 0
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. Votes: 0
Every girl has a right to be loved. Votes: 0
Fear is choosing the safe course Votes: 0
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. Votes: 0
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. Votes: 0
Golf is typical capitalist luncay. Votes: 0
Heartbreak is life educating us. Votes: 0
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. Votes: 0
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum Votes: 0
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference. Votes: 0
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me. Votes: 0
I never expect a soldier to think. Votes: 0
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there. Votes: 0
I work as my father drank. Votes: 0
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. Votes: 0
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. Votes: 0
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. Votes: 0
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. Votes: 0
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. Votes: 0
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. Votes: 0
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. Votes: 0
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful. Votes: 0
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. Votes: 0
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. Votes: 0
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. Votes: 0
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft Votes: 0
Morals are a luxury of the rich. Votes: 0
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. Votes: 0
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it. Votes: 0
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten Votes: 0
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. Votes: 0
Paradoxes are the only truths. Votes: 0
Remember that I too am mortal. Votes: 0
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. Votes: 0
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else. Votes: 0
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. Votes: 0
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... Votes: 0
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?' Votes: 0
Stimulate the phagocytes. Votes: 0
Style is effectiveness of assertion. Votes: 0
The 100% American is 99% idiot. Votes: 0
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. Votes: 0
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. Votes: 0
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. Votes: 0
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men. Votes: 0
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. Votes: 0
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. Votes: 0
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. Votes: 0
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. Votes: 0
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. Votes: 0
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. Votes: 0
The stock actor is a stage calamity Votes: 0
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. Votes: 0
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. Votes: 0
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Votes: 0
Those who understand evil pardon it. Votes: 0
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time. Votes: 0
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation. Votes: 0
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come. Votes: 0
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now Votes: 0
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud. Votes: 0
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard. Votes: 0
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." Votes: 0
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. Votes: 0
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. Votes: 0
Why not give Christianity a trial? Votes: 0
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. Votes: 0
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. Votes: 0
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. Votes: 0
Our first duty is not to be poor. Votes: 0
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. Votes: 0
This souls'prison we call England. Votes: 0
Fashions are induced epidemics. Votes: 0