Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'