Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.