I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.