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.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.