We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.