They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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.