In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. |
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage. |
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. |
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity". |
It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact . . . I do not profess to write better plays. |
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. |
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. |
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible |
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. |
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period. |
It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. |
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. |
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made |
It is most unwise for people in love to marry. |
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief |