For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism. . . are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle. . . of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.