I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.