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.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.