The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

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

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!