Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.