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The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

What men value in the world is not rights, but privileges.

Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.

I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.