Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

We possess nothing certainly except the past