Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.