All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.