If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.