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.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.