The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.