The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.