It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic |
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. |
It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive |
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils. |
It is important when you haven't got any ammunition to have a butt on your rifle. |
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. |
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing |
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. |
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism |
It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. |
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. |
It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly. |
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half. |
It wouldn’t make much sense to increase the penalty for bigamy. A bigamist has two mothers-in-law, and that’s punishment enough. |
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required |