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 only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.