The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.