If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
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