| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Action | If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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| Bathing | I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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| Bible | The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enimies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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| Books | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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| Broadway | What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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| Christians | The Christian ideal has not tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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| Civilization | Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilizations, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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| Class | The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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| Golf | I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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| Insults | Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry.
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| Journalism | Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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| Man | Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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| Money | To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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| Music | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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| Patriotism | "My country right or wrong" is like saying "My mother drunk or sober."
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| Politics | And they that rule in england /n In stately conclave met, n Alas, alas for England /n They have no graves as yet.
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