Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.