"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.