The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

The end was contained in the beginning.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.