“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made ...” — George Bernard Shaw Quote

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.