Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.