The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going