St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.