After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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