Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Altogether too many sheep

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