For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that ….

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, ….

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word..

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there ne….

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters..

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shou….

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guard….

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his….

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggio….

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something..

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris..

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause..

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits..

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears..

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space..

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of P….

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. ….

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all la….

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal..

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse..

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others..