When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve..

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestio….

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching ….

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it..

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously….

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest….

Love's a disease. But curable..

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane..

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This….

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion..

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass..

Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, stran….

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder..

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad..

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind..

Nearly all novels are too long..

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they wor….

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself..

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child l….

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind..

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel s….