John Lennon

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war –for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

That after an hour’s silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness… That’s all, it took him an hour to work that out.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Think with your whole body.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.