A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.