Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.