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.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.