A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.