Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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?