“If you want soldiers you must have children. You can't buy 'em in boxes, like toy soldiers.”

“I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism. I don't and wont trade in affection. You call me a brute because you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did I ever fetch your slippers? I think a good deal more of you for throwing them in my face. No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave?”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”

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