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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.