I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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.