It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Altogether too many sheep

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.