Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.

You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

有人看到事物的现状并问“为什么”；而我梦想着从未有过的事物并问“为什么不”。

Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.