He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
All great men come out of the middle classes.
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.
Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.