If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.