I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.