I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.