We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

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

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.