We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).
Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.
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