"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

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

"Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers"

"She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household."

"I want to be all used up when I die."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

"Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn."

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it"

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself"

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

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage"

"A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage."

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."

"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted."

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands."

"People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them"

"Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination"

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one"

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"

"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum"

"A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often"

"The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false"

"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession"

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

"The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries"

"That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen."

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."

"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."

"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."