The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.