I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value..

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to….

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over..

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the hu….

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind..

He is every other inch a gentleman..

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family..

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats..

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell..

The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate ….

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, ….

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sc….

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Willi….

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists..

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity..

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh..

Unhappy people are dangerous..

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness..

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it..