The Devil Can Quote Shakespeare For His

An Englishman Does Everything On Principle: He Fights You On Patriotic Principles; He Robs You On Business Principles; He Enslaves You On Imperial Principles.

During The Suffragette Revolt Of 1913 I[urged] That What Was Needed Was Not The Vote, But A Constitutional Amendment Enactingthat All Representative Bodies Shall Consist Of Women And Men In Equal Numbers, Whether Elected Or Nominated Or Coopted Or Registered Or Picked Up In The Street Like A Coroner's Jury. In The Case Of Elected Bodies The Only Way Of Effecting This Is By The Coupled Vote. The Representative Unit Must Not Be A Man Or A Woman But A Man And A Woman.

I Loathe The Mess Of Mean Superstitions And Misunderstood Prophecies Which Is Still Rammed Down The Throats Of Children Under The Name Of Christianity.

Every Drunken Skipper Trusts To Providence. But One Of The Ways Of Providence With Drunken Skippers Is To Run Them On The Rocks.

Optimistic Lies Have Such Immense Therapeutic Value That A Doctor Who Cannot Tell Them Convincingly Has Mistaken His Profession.