The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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

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.

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

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.