| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. |
| Art and Artists | Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
| Boys | A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. |
| Chastity | Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. |
| Cleverness | The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. |
| Compromise | Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. |
| Country | "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". |
| Courage | Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. |
| Democracy | You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. |
| Education | Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. |
| Education | Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. |
| Fame | The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
| Fight | You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. |
| Hygiene | Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. |
| Love | The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. |
| Quarrel | People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. |
| Quotation | You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. |
| Religion | It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. |
| Retirement | The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. |
| Ritual | Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. |
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