But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision