The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.