Share this page: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- A Little Book in C major (1916) Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- A Little Book in C major (1916) When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. -- Chrestomathy (1949) Love is a delusion that one woman differs from another. -- Chrestomathy (1949) Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- Chrestomathy (1949) Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- Quoted in The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social History(Frank Muir, 1976) "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry." -- "Minority Report", collected in Notebooks (1956) Share this page:

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