It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.