As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.