“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

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

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if a woman threatens to kill herself and your unborn child, you are in an emotionally abusive relationship.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.