Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.