When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.