Quotes by Sir Walter Besant
| My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. |
| The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. |
| England and America are two countries separated by the same language. |
| You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world. |
| He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. |
| I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. |
| Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. |
| If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example. |
| A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. |
| Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children. |
| Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. |
