“Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
“How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.”
“A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.”
“A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.”
“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.”
“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”
“When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
“She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?”
“The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
“It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.”
“Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.”
“Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.”
“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”
“You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
“Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
“In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.”
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”