It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.