"I want to be all used up when I die."

"Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons."

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."

"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."

"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at their mercy, and no public responsibility. And to symbolize this state of things, this defeat of all government, you have set up in New York Harbour a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete this monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell 'All hope abandon, ye who enter here."

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there."

"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength."

"A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."

"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

"Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."

"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

"How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!"

"Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done."

"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul."

"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."

"I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot."

"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."

"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom."