There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be