"What about the munitions girls.. the girls in Gretna that got blown up that they tried to hush up? And getting canary through working with TNT so your coughing yellow cut the rest of your life?"

"If there's one thing that narks the men about this war it's the way it shows them up for creating such mysteries round things."

"I shall be his very shadow."

"I never believed war would make a difference like this. There's money around."

"They say we're taking jobs off them an that we'll want to be drivers next."

"Inspectors and drivers. Drivers are the worst. Mine's forever slamming on the brakes to have me fall over. Won't speak to me hardly... and they won't have girls in the rest room except to get our tea. Then they dock our pay cos they say we have to have assistance with the poles turning the trams round at the terminus."

"I'm not living with you! We occupy the same cage, that's all."

"One more crack, queenie, just one, and I will not only spit in your eye but I will punch it black and blue!"

"One man has one great good true thing in his life. One great good thing which is true! I had friendship with Skipper. You are namin' it dirty!"

"What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?"

"S’il n’y avait pas de Pologne il n’y aurait pas de Polonais !"

"A to Polska właśnie."

"Miałeś, chamie, złoty róg, miałeś, chamie, czapkę z piór: (...) ostał ci sie ino sznur"

"To któż moich groszy złodzij, czy Żyd jucha, cy dobrodzij!?"

"Mego dziadka piłą rżnęli... Myśmy wszystko zapomnieli."

"Cóż tam, panie, w polityce? Chińcyki trzymają się mocno!?"

"Niech na całym świecie wojna, byle polska wieś zaciszna, byle polska wieś spokojna."

"A, jak myślę, ze panowie duza by juz mogli mieć, ino oni nie chcom chcieć!"

"Trza być w butach na weselu."

"Ach, pan gada, gada, gada."

"Chłop potęgą jest i basta."

"Kto mnie wołał, czego chciał?"

"Chopin gdyby jeszcze żył, toby pił"

"Świętości nie szargać, bo trza, żeby święte były"

"Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are…"

"Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred."

"The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will."

"Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins."

"Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."

"If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven."

"Beware of the man whose god is in the skies."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites."

"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."

"Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells."

"It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind."

"Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death."

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."

"Activity is the only road to knowledge."

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free."

"He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either."

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination."

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry."

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."