The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted..

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death..

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge..

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology..

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift ….

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it ce….

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes..

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth..

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps..

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companio….

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her han….

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as freq….

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever..

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain nar….

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived..

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth..

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul..

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste..

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being..

All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all su….

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization..