Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt