The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a... Ph.D.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most profound effect of World War I on me ... was that it committed me to international affairs as the principal work of my li...fe. ...I have sometimes regretted that my avocation or chief hobby happened to be such a gloomy one. ...When I look at the world today ... I sometimes wonder whether [my efforts] were not nearly all in vain. Perhaps it would have been better if I had adopted as my chief hobby the cultivation of chrysanthemums or the breeding of West Highland White Terriers or even, as did one of my friends, the collection of Japanese swordguards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, ...for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man is a good lawyer, a good physician, a good engineer ... he may be a fool in every other capacity. But no deficiency or mi...stake of judgment is forgiven to a woman ... and should she fail anywhere, if she has any scientific attainment, or artistic faculty, instead of standing her interest as an excuse, it is censured as an aggravation and offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »