To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. |
Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English |
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. |
Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery. |
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. |
Very few people can afford to be poor. |
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. |
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices. |
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it |
Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. |
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. |
We are a nation of governesses. |
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins |
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |